Joanny PAQUIER-SARRASIN (1847-1909) Bust of a Woman Crowned with Laurels or Poetry, Woman's Head, 1902 Oil on panel, signed in the upper right corner 33 x 24 cm Exhibition: Lyon, Salon de la Société Lyonnaise des Beaux-Arts 1902, n°510, under the title Poésie, tête de femme Exhibition/Bibliography: Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Portraitistes lyonnais 1800-1914, June-September 1986, n°130, reproduced and described in the exhibition catalog page 212, by a text by Étienne Grafe

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